As part of the South Australian Living Artists Festival (SALA) Festival, the South Australian Maritime Museum will host mixed media artist Scott Bain’s second solo exhibition, Micromachina Aqua – comprising of nine new works, and five works from the award-winning Micromachina exhibition.
Micromachina was
created as a social comment on humans' destructive and capitalist drive
to control our planet. Money, profits and economic growth take precedence over
environment, habitats and entire species. The self-destructive consumption of
natural resources is showing no signs of slowing down. The first exhibition helped to
create a worldwide talking point on the works – and hopefully the message.
Micromachina
Aqua takes this inspiration to the high seas, highlighting the damage caused
to an often unseen, large percentage of our planet. The destruction caused by
overfishing, oil spills and now gas exploration are causing irreversible damage to
fragile underwater ecosystems. If the exhibition encourages the viewer to think
about the future of other species, then the art is doing its job. For those who
are charmed by the painstakingly miniature, it is also a delightfully tongue in
cheek look at cutting edge ‘maritime’ art.
Mr Bain won the award for Best Visual Art Emerging Artist for Micromachina
at the 2011 Fringe Festival. His work has been profiled on the
National Geographic and Discovery channels as well as in international visual art
media.
More information on Scott and his work is available here.
Micromachina Aqua
3–26 August 2012
Launch: 9 August at 6pm
Visit the SA Maritime Museum’s website here.
Pictured: Micromachina – Urban Camouflage, 2011. Beetle, plastic figures, found objects, 15cm
x 12.5cm (cased)
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